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		<title>Flipping the innovation process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent announcement that Cisco is investing £310m in the East London Tech City to build two networked Innovation Centres deserves considerably more plaudits than it has received so far. Here&#8217;s why. Cameron’s Silicon Roundabout will not be political “puff” that came to nothing. It will now become reality. We can all see how technology [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irisblogs.co.uk/blog/martinleuw/flipping-the-innovation-process/.</link>
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		<title>2011: Adapt, Plan, Communicate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What can you do to not make a bad situation even worse? Don&#8217;t take advice from BAA. Plus, my new year resolutions for business. http://realbusiness.co.uk/martin_leuw/2011_adapt_plan_communicate]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irisblogs.co.uk/blog/martinleuw/2011-adapt-plan-communicate-3/.</link>
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		<title>How MPs can boost business growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I was at the House of Commons talking about how to promote mutual understanding between parliament and the world of commerce. Here are the three main lessons from the event – and why Luke Johnson flew off the handle. http://realbusiness.co.uk/martin_leuw/how_mps_can_boost_business_growth]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irisblogs.co.uk/blog/martinleuw/how-mps-can-boost-business-growth/.</link>
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		<title>Limits on migration: reduced to tiers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Skilled migrants are not a burden on Britain. They don&#8217;t commit more crime, and they don&#8217;t take the jobs of British workers. Why are we capping them? Yesterday’s announcement on migration caps feels like the UK government is still too bogged down in politics when the one thing everybody should be focused on is promoting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irisblogs.co.uk/blog/martinleuw/limits-on-migration-reduced-to-tiers/.</link>
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		<title>European CEO confidence on the rise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The results of the latest Young Presidents’ Organisation (YPO) Global Pulse Confidence Index were released earlier this week. The results give a fascinating &#8220;pulse check&#8221; of business trends. Just to put this into context, the YPO (of which I am a member) is a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurial chief executives focused on a shared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irisblogs.co.uk/blog/martinleuw/european-ceo-confidence-on-the-rise/.</link>
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		<title>In praise of the &#8220;Young Ones&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lord Young&#8217;s appointment as enterprise czar is a vital step in ensuring that SMEs&#8217; views are heard within Whitehall, and more importantly, that something is done quickly to address the many burdens that businesses are carrying, which act as obstacles to growth. As the government announced the findings of its Spending Review, it was heartening [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irisblogs.co.uk/blog/martinleuw/in-praise-of-the-young-ones/.</link>
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		<title>Breakfast with Steve Ballmer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I listened to Steve Ballmer talking over breakfast. Admittedly I was one of a few hundred people in the LSE lecture theatre but privileged nonetheless to hear the thoughts of Microsoft&#8217;s CEO on cloud computing. A man with a very big personality, my four main breakfast takeaways from Ballmer were: 1. We are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irisblogs.co.uk/blog/martinleuw/breakfast-with-steve-ballmer/.</link>
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		<title>Who will be the European Googles of the future?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I was very privileged to attend the first day of Seedcamp week as mentor to a batch of highly talented tech entrepreneurs at UCL in London. The brainchild of Saul Klein of Index Ventures, Skype, Glasses Direct and LoveFilm (among others), Seedcamp could be described as the X Factor competition for tech startups. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irisblogs.co.uk/blog/martinleuw/who-will-be-the-european-googles-of-the-future/.</link>
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		<title>Is the internet changing the way we think?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American writer Nicholas Carr&#8217;s claim that the internet is not only shaping our lives but physically altering our brains has sparked a lively and ongoing debate. Join the debate at  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/15/internet-brain-neuroscience-debate]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irisblogs.co.uk/blog/martinleuw/is-the-internet-changing-the-way-we-think/.</link>
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		<title>Mentoring – What can we learn?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was an excellent article in the Financial Times last week called “Things my mentor taught me” which featured a range of successful entrepreneurs talking about those individuals, whether they be family, friends or colleagues who had inspired, supported and taught them things which helped them on the road to success. The key point I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irisblogs.co.uk/blog/martinleuw/mentoring-%e2%80%93-what-can-we-learn/.</link>
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